A huge advantage of WordPress is e.g. the availability of a plethora of themes. You can get almost every theme possible, whether it’s more spartan or the equal to an artist fighting his very own horror vacui (aka stylish and feature rich). But with opulence comes decadence. For example, how much style is wise without sacrificing your very content? Or vice versa, how many style you can sacrifice without to chase the readers off? It’s a tightrope walk and I’m in the middle of it.

I’ve seen many nice themes, stylish but somewhat heavy and I’ve seen lots of themes more fond of KISS principle, sort of spartan. But even if I think I’ve got a proper one, there is always some caveat. Some of it are obvious, others aren’t. There are themes that look almost perfect – but pictures in an article are looking horrible. Some themes are incompatible with certain plugins, like my favorite footnotes-plugin and so on. And a small number of themes are perfect on first sight only, but they are too heavy to stand them for more than a week ;-)

So if you notice some fluctuation once in a while, don’t bother. It will not last for ever, but I certainly need some more experiments to get the perfect theme for my publication. Elegant grunge is such an almost perfect theme, but it lacks … je ne sais quoi – a certain detail I cannot name, but I will see it, if it is there ;-)